Opinion: California’s War on Business

CKE Chief Executive Andy Puzder on the hazards of running a business in California. Photos: Associated Press

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... back to Opinion Journal why Mary Kissel ... continuing the conversation was seeking its chief executive and the poster ... for entering the hazards of doing business in California and are so many of them ... we just put a couple up ... on the slide here for the viewing audience the first ... night in building costs too high in the let's go through this list for your big costs with Alumina from the costs of this whole thing asking you start the linkage or rent property a bite then you need to build ... it they have to wait in in Texas is sixty days in Shanghai China we have referred to twenty week on foreign countries ... in Shanghai to try to sixty three days ... in St Petersburg Russia to earn eighty ... we actually built a restaurant in noblest immersed in Siberia in Russia ... hundred twenty five days so it's easier to film inside period in his in California Los Angeles it ordered eighty days we can build on Kearl marks revenue and we have are of the year and over servers faster than I can build the new Avenue of stars in this entry on the table what's that is the Number two managers can't work like managers for the mean by that while they are in most parts of the country a manager is a manager if he's a manager it's a subjective test was the runner grocery store or restaurant in California have to work fifty percent your time in non managerial in in in managerial tasks ... if you were fifty percent and the manager of the SNE have to be paid overtime what will emerge ever manage to run these restaurants like they own the minutes record doesn't show up a better ... cook a dour work that yet well now we've had to change or general managers hourly employees ... so that they could do these not managerial tasks ... and it turns out California is an eight hour Workday instead of a forty hour workweeks and other managers told they can do all the steps but they can only work ... and allocated number of ours would actually have to fight your people ... for working more than are allocated hours ... because they wanted were stronger faster smarter harder than the next I run the restaurant like they own it make a profit ... when you tell we're sorry but we have to fire you and maybe should move to Texas or Tennessee or a state where you actually connected to the not to mention the trial lawyers the oppressive taxes it's all coming down the Pike ... last question ... when you move into Texas ... I'll probably not Texas ... we may be of and it will always have an office in California with a very strong presence direction looking at Tennessee is a possible of a push to go that we'd look to Texas it's hard to make Texas workforce ... ah but you know we we we we we did the important part is where are we building restaurants not where the corporate headquarters years ... and were building very few in California let three hundred Texas by the end of this decade we started with Joe a couple years ago so ... I were building in Texas for building antenna saying we're building in states were business are growing people are employed ... and they'd like us ... to create jobs ... wonderful CK he's the CEO and the Pfizer ... thank you so much for being on show ... that's it for opinion Journal today E-mail us at Opinion Journal Live it WS J dot com ... I'm Mary Kissel with The Wall Street Journal editorial page thanks for watching